Hurricane Irene and Steve Jobs

Jobs drove an industry to let us download Irene in real time—or to let Moammar Gadhafi hunt and imprison dissidents.

By

Daniel Henninger

September 1, 2011

It was exciting and disturbing to spend all last Sunday in the kitchen of a small house in the Austrian countryside, watching New York City TV stations back home broadcast reports of Hurricane Irene driving torrents of water across my neighborhood in Manhattan, and the American East Coast.

We streamed live images for 18 hours from New York TV stations into a Lenovo laptop, an Apple iPad and a Barnes & Noble Nook Color tablet....